SNAICC Conversations: Family Matters

May 7 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

The Family Matters campaign is Australia’s national, community-led campaign to eliminate the over-representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in out-of-home care by 2040.

Each year, the Family Matters campaign holds the National Week of Action: an annual awareness-raising event to harness public engagement and political commitment to the campaign’s key advocacy asks and the community-led solutions that we know work to keep children safe and connected to culture. This year’s National Week of Action – held between 20-26 May – will focus on highlighting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community-led programs across the country that seek to empower and support families to ensure that children remain with their families, connected to family, community and culture.

Ahead of the National Week of Action, the panellists will draw on their professional and personal experiences to highlight promising community-led initiatives that have been successful at supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families and children to thrive, and stopping children from being removed into state care.

Come along to engage around promising community-led initiatives and what you can do through the Family Matters campaign to take action to see all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children safe and cared for in community and culture.

Speaking on how Family Matters Queensland has managed to successfully lobby the Queensland Government to: adopt a generational strategy – Our Way – to eliminate over-representation and some of its first key initiatives, including the First Nations Child and Family Board, Aboriginal family-led decision-making and embedding all five elements of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Child Placement Principle (ATSICPP) in legislation.